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The World's Most Bizarre Murders: True Stories That Will Shock and Amaze You
From the stomach-churning to the truly bizarre, the details of some of history’s weirdest and most shocking murder cases are collected in this enthralling volume. The criminals covered here all perpetrated crimes with a peculiar twist, among them Enriqueta Marti, who kidnapped children then boiled away their flesh and crushed their bones to make ingredients for her lucrati...more
Hardcover, 296 pages
Published
May 1st 2009
by John Blake
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A series of overviews of some bizarre and strange murders, although I found many didn't really fit the 'bizarre' or 'shocking' for me, though that may be because I'm something of a hardened true crime reader. In some of the cases, it was the after-effects or other aspects of the cases which were shocking or bizarre - see the case of Issei Sagawa, the Japanese cannibal who, on his release from prison, became a cult celebrity and was in demand for chat shows, cookery shows (!) and porno's, amongst...more
I think there is definately something wrong with me when I saw over half the cases profiled in this book as not being what I would consider "bizarrre". Straight up serial murders, common cannibals: I need something a little more shocking. A life time of reading about Jack the Ripper,Ted Bundy and pretty much every other serial killer throughout history has left me a little jaded apparently. The story about the washed up 50's B actress that was murdered by her dwarf son who claimed i...more
I was not impressed with this book at all! Maybe it is just not my forte, which I am actually sure is all it is. But hey, its fun to read something different every once in a while. The book basically just told short stories of the lives of killer around the world.
This book was just ok. It read like a bunch of newspaper articles. I can't say I was really 'shocked' or 'amazed' by any of the stories, but some of them were very interesting.
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